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  • July 6, 2007 |

    Barclays review keeps faith with familiar faces

    Barclays has unveiled its eagerly awaited new panel, with all the bank's main panel firms reappointed to its coveted main roster. Mandates for the bank's general advisory panel, which are set to run for two years, have been handed out once again to historical advisers to Allen & Overy (A&O), Clifford Chance (CC), Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters, Lovells, DLA Piper and Simmons & Simmons.

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  • July 5, 2007 |

    Addleshaws signs up Dentons City banking partner

    Addleshaw Goddard has recruited highly-rated Denton Wilde Sapte banking partner Natalie Elphicke to reinforce its City practice.

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  • July 5, 2007 |

    Dentons reshuffles Middle East as Abu Dhabi head steps down

    Denton Wilde Sapte is to lose its Abu Dhabi office head but gain a technology, media and telecoms (TMT) chief in Dubai as UK law firms continue to fight for talent in the Middle East.

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  • July 4, 2007 |

    Saudi telecoms company calls up Freshfields for $3bn buy-out

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has won a major Middle Eastern client, advising Saudi Telecom Company (STC) on its $3.05bn (£1.5bn) acquisition of a 25% stake in a Malaysian telecoms operator.

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  • July 4, 2007 |

    Linklaters' results hat-trick will be Angel's legacy

    David Childs and Ted Burke must be hoping Linklaters’ incoming managing partner, Simon Davies, proves to be a miserable failure. Because judged on…

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  • June 27, 2007 |

    Ashurst in the picture for lead role on Jessops restructuring

    Ashurst has edged Eversheds aside to advise camera retailer Jessops on the restructuring that has seen it close 81 stores and make 550 redundancies.

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  • June 21, 2007 |

    Dentons in local tie-up for coveted Saudi market

    Denton Wilde Sapte has secured a prized tie-up with a Saudi Arabian practice as it becomes the latest City firm to launch an associated office in Riyadh. The firm has joined forces with Saudi lawyer Wael Abdulrahman Alissa and hired local Fulbright & Jaworski corporate and commercial senior associate Amgad Husein as a partner to lead the new venture. Husein is US-qualified and has practised in the Middle East since 1999. The firm is planning more hires in coming months.

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  • June 21, 2007 |

    Watson Farley, Chadbourne aim for December deal

    London's Watson Farley & Williams and New York-based Chadbourne & Parke have emerged as the latest firms to enter into transatlantic merger negotiations. The high-level talks, which began formally in January, are being led by Watson Farley managing partner Michael Greville and Chadbourne managing partner Charles O'Neill. They are being assisted by a handful of senior management figures, including Watson Farley's chairman, Frank Dunne.

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  • June 20, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 20/6/2007

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled Deal Week section, with Freshfields, Ashurst and Wragges among the runners and riders.

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  • June 19, 2007 |

    Baker Botts boosts Dubai with Dentons defector

    Denton Wilde Sapte has been hit by the loss of its Middle East head of energy and project finance, Sean Korney, who has left the City firm to join Baker Botts. Korney, who specialises in major oil and gas projects in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the Americas, joins the Texas firm as a partner in its Dubai office.

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